Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-29
by telegraph to the pisnntch.1

the report of the Committee on Per
manent Organization. which continues
in Office the temporary officers. Adopt
ed.
The convention then took a recess
for one hour.
The report of the Committee on Gre
dentials (Which was adopted) divides
the seventy.two seats of New York city
evenly between the County Democracy
and Tammany. Irving Hall was left
cut.
DECEASED STATESMEN REGEMBERED.
The convention was again called to
order at / :1S. Governor DOrsheimerpre-
sented the report of the Committee on
Resolutions. Before the platform was
read the following resolutions were
adopted
Whereas since the Democratic party
of New York last met in convention it
bas lost by death its honored statesmen
Horatio Seymour and Samuel j. Til
den, and within the period many other
noble leaders have finished the work
committed to their hands
RcsoirCd, That the names Of Iilden,
Seymour, Hendricks, Mcclellan, and
Hancock are those of great and up-
right men which recall honor to be
won in the faithful public service, while
the remembrance of them requires all
other Democrats TO aid in maintaining
and advancing the standard Of integrity
which they sustained.
RcsciCCd, That upon this the first
Assem- blage of Democratic convention
for the State since the retirement OF
Secretary Manning from the Treasury
Department, we desire TO express oar
admiration of the wisdom and success
which marked his administration OF
that department.
TIE PLATFOEM.
The platform was then read, as foi
lows:
The unnecessary Federal taxation
of the last fiscal year exceeded one hun
drCd millions. Unnecessary taxation
is unjust taxation. Therefore the De
mocracy of New York demand that
Federal taxation be straightway re-
duced bya sum Of not less than one hun
dred millions year, and also respect
fully urge upon Congress that moa-
sure shall be adopted which Will, in the
language of the Presidents inaugural
address, "Telieve the people from I'M
necessary taxation, having "A due regard
to the interests of the capital invested
and the workingmen employed in Ame-
rican industries
The taxes to be first reduced or alto
gether removed are those on imported
raw materials, which now assist and
promote foreign competition with our
selves in our own markets and prevent
or hinder the sale of our surplus pro-
ducts in foreign markets. Along
with those taxes should be forthwith
RENTED or reduced the taXation which
increases tho cost to our wage-eaners
of the common necessaries of lie ana
the price of the common daily clothing
of all our people. Besides these there
are several hundred articles among the
4.1S2 articles now taxed which should
he swept of the tax-list into the free
list, thereby diminishing the cost OF
collecting all our seaport taxes and cast
ing away those which are petty, need
less. and vexatious. We also urge an
immediate enactment of measures pre-
pared by Messrs. Manning and Hewitt
and reported to the last House by the
Committee of Ways and Means to sys
tematize, simplify, and economic the
machinery for the collection of customs
revenue and especially for making cor
rect appraisements OF foreign values
where Qd-UalOrcm rates of duty shall
be retained.
To all citizens born in foreign lands
and to the multitude of our native cIti-
zens who desire to obtain and securely
hold their homes the Democratic party
has rendered jnestimable service in re-
claiming from speculative railroad cor
porations public lands which such cor
pOrations, by the corrupt aid of Repub-
can administrations, had seized, to be
disposedof for their private gain. Many
millions of acres of these lands have
been so recovered by the Democratic
Administration and returned 10 the peo
pie for the use of actual settlers. The
Democratic party is the proved friend OF
all who have come to orr country seek
ing TO become partners in its welfare
and citizens obedient to its laws. There
is in our Americas bread enough and
wolk enough for all, and the Federal
laws now on the statute-book Tor the
promotion and protection of foreign
emigration do not, in our opinion, II
they shall be faithfully executed by the
proper Federal and State authorities,
require present enlargement or amend
ment.
The Democracy of New York reite-
rate their support of the civil-seryiee
laws of the United States and the State
of New York, and of their purpose to
unbold them both. In view OF the
radical changes in the administrative
methods which grow out OF the civil
service laws, and the differences of
opinion which exist in relation thereto,
we deem the subject one which might
appropriately be submitted TO the
popular vote.
Notwithstanding the decided decrease
in the ordinary expenditures oi the
Government, faithful soldiers, sailors,
and their families have been generously
remembered, and the annual pension
list. under Democratic control, shows
payments in number and amount largely
In excess of those during the years OF
Republican administration.
The Democracy Of the State OF New
York deplore the wrongs inflicted ON
Ireland by the coerciye and despotic,
mower of the English Government, and
express TO that suffering people the
earnest hope that they may speedily
enjoy the blessings OF home rule and oil
| civil liberty. =
We favor revised excise law apph-
cable without unjust discrimination
| throughout the State. :,
We oppose all sumptuary laws need
lessIy interfering with the personal lib
critics and reasonable habits and Gus
| toms Of any portion OF our citizens.
We believe that the excise revenues,
like other proper local revenues, should
be applied 10 lessening local burdens
and to the reduction Of local taxation.
The platform then declares in favor
~ a liberal policy towards State canals,
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